Full Issue:

Greater Southeast Community Hospital, the centerpiece of the privatization scheme
corruptly rammed through last year, is in bankruptcy and is operating “day-to-day”
on a drastically reduced level, as a result of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by
its owner, Doctors Community Healthcare Corporation.

Feature

Today’s Utopians have declared that “the era of the Treaty of Westphalia has ended”—the
treaty that ended the devastation of the Thirty Years War in 1648. Against this folly,
it is imperative that the strategic principle of Cardinal Mazarin’s understanding
of the peace, including its later influence on the emergence of the American nation,
be grasped and inform future agreements among sovereign nation-states.

International

Dr. Enéas Carneiro, the Brazilian congressman who was elected in October with the
highest vote count in the history of Brazil, denounced the campaign by his enemies
to annul his historic victory, attempts which have escalated from press smears to
death threats against him and his associates.

National

Should the United States establish a new counterintelligence and counter-terrorism
agency, to replace the FBI? The axioms underlying the debate in Washington are wrong.
The best first step, says Lyndon LaRouche, would be to fire Attorney General John
Ashcroft.